NEWS RELEASES
Editor's Note: This news item was retrieved and first published through National Parks Traveler's website.
Grand Avenue and Wild Cave tours at Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky will be closed for as long as 20 months, as they undergo restoration work. The Mammoth Cave Accessible Tour will be limited to weekends as the first phase of the cave trail restoration work begins. The restoration work looks to improve the walking path, stairs, handrails, seating, and resource issues along approximately two miles of cave trail.National Parks Traveler (NPT) staff relay in their article, "The cave trail rehabilitation project will be conducted in two phases. The first phase will set the construction staging area in the Snowball Room, which is in close proximity to the only elevator that services the cave and provides visitor access for the Accessible tour. During phase two, the Domes and Dripstones and Frozen Niagara tours will be closed in addition to the Grand Avenue tour, but the Wild Cave and Accessible tours will reopen for normal visitation as the main construction work will no longer affect the access for these tour routes." The remainder of the cave tours will still be open to visitors during the estimated 18-20 months the restoration project will take to complete. To get more details on the closures at Mammoth Cave National Park, visit Mammoth Cave National Park's website.